Video Capsule Review

MRS. WINTERBOURNE

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Rated: PG-13; Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance; With: Brendan Fraser, Ricki Lake and Shirley MacLaine

By Melissa Pierson

MRS. WINTERBOURNE Shirley MacLaine, Ricki Lake (1996, Columbia TriStar, PG-13, priced for rental) Some videos belong on drugstore shelves next to cough drops and Kleenex because they're perfect flu remedies: diverting, undemanding -- and not worth watching in good health. Mrs. Winterbourne, loosely based on a Cornell Woolrich mystery, is one such palliative. Lake is charming as a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who, thanks to an accident on the tracks, gets mistaken for the aristocratic widow of a millionaire's recently deceased son. Taken in by her new mother-in-law (MacLaine) and her ''husband's'' twin (Brendan Fraser), this Cinderella finds herself enmeshed in a plot full of marshmallow fluff. The ending is, of course, happy. Yours will be too, after taking your video NyQuil and having a good rest. B-

Posted Nov 15, 1996

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